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elixation|ˈiːlɪk-, ɛlɪkˈseɪʃən|
[as if ad. L. *ēlixātiōnem, f. ēlixāre: see elixate v. and -ation.]
1. The action of boiling or stewing.
1605Timme Quersit. iii. 190 Elixation..is a concoction made by a moyst heate of a thing indifinitely existing in a humour. 1615Crooke Body of Man 113 Finally they serue to moysten the guts, that their concoction may be celebrated by elixation or boyling. 1757Walker in Phil. Trans. L. 122 After elixation the water became of a turbid yellow colour with ochre.
2. Concoction in the stomach; digestion.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. v, Elixation, is the boyling of meat in the stomacke, by the said naturall heat. 1651Biggs New Disp. 96 The rest of the pouder, as it is not overcome by elixation, so it continues in a permanency of indigestion in the stomack. |